Wire-fastener.



A. W. BURBURY.

WIRE PASTBNBB.

nrmo'nrox nun DEG-31,1906.

Patel lted Nov. 24, 1908.

ALFRED WILLIAM BURBURY, OF WOODBURY, TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA.

WIRE-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1908.

Application filed December 31, 1906. Serial No. 350,284.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED \VILLIAM BUR- nnnr, a subj cct of the King ofGreat Britain, residing at \Voodbury, in the State of Tasmania,Gommomvealth of Australia, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in ire-Fasteners, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to means for securing the strands of a wire fenceto the standards and droppers where the standards are used in lieu ofwooden posts.

By means of my improved clip device, a standard or dropper may beadapted to suit fences having a varying number of wire strands orwherein the distance between the wires or gage varies.

It is the object of my invention to provide a cheap and easilyconstructed clip for the wire strands of a fence that will securely holdthe wire therein and at the same time be capable of being taken off orreplaced upon the dropper or standard at any point.

The clip is made of a piece of fiat steel or other suitable metal whichis bent medially to form a ridge. Its edges are then bent to form gripsto engage with the ed es of the dropper or standard. In the ridge thusformed I may, in one form of clip, make an incision with a milling orother tool in preferably an oblique direction, say at an angle of about45 degrees from the perpendicular. The inner portions of the opening arehollowed out or enlarged in such a way that after placing the wirestrand in the incision or groove, the clip, when brought to a verticalposition, will lock with the wire.

I am aware that metal droppers have been used with oblique incisions andhollowed out openings in a ridge constructed in a way somewhat similarto those in my clips, but such droppers are more or less weakened bymaking the incisions, and are moreover, onl applicable to a fence thestrands of which are the same distance a Jart as the incisions in thedropper. Now, y means of my invention, the dropper is not only stronger,but by moving the clips up and down, the droper may be adapted tovarious gages of fence. My invention is also useful with iron standards,and will be described in connec tion therewith, thereby rendering itnecessary to use wooden posts except, perhaps, at very long intervals.

The invention will be found illustrated in the accompanying drawings, inwhich Figure 1 is a front view of my clip. Fig. 2 is a view of same fromone side, and Fig. 3 is a similar view, the reverse of Fig. 2. Fig. 4shows a clip adapted to an angle iron standard.

The strands 1 of a wire fence are required to be secured to thestandards or droppers "i. For this purpose I use clips whereby the wirewill be held close to the droppers or standard and at the same time beallowed to move in the clips without risk of becoming detached.

One form of clip is shown in Fig. 1, wherein 4iis a piece of light sheetmetal the medial portion of which is pinched up into rid e 5, while itsside edges are bent backwar s to afford claws or grips 6 with which tosecure it to the dropper 3. In the ridge 5 I make an incision 7 aboutopposite to a hole which is previously bored through the ridge from sideto side. The axis of the bore is exactly at right angles to the plane ofthe face of the dropper or clip so that if the incision is made at anangle of 45 degrees from the perpendicular it will cut away part of theedge of each hole so formed in the pinched up portion of the clip. Theresult will be as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, where the upper edge of thehole is cut away on one side while on the other side of the clip thelower ed e of the hole or bore is removed. In or er therefore 'to inserta wire strand in the clip, it will be necessary to incline the latter atan angle of about 45 degrees. If when the wire is in the incision, theclip is again brought to the vertical position, the strand of wire willseat itself on the remaining edges of the hole or bore before mentionedand will not be able to leave the clip while the dropper is in aperpendicular position.

In Fig. 4, a clip substantially the same as the foregoing, is providedwith two faces for the purpose of gripping an angle iron standard.

Having now described the invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is The combination with a fencing standard ordropper, of a removable clip adapted to be locked thereon, and comrising a piece of sheet metal having a eentra vertical ridge having ahorizontal hole passing therethrough, and said ridge having an obliqueslot in its outermost edge communicating with said hole.

Signed at Hobart this 18th day of July 1906.

ALFRED WILLIAM BURBURY In the fiesence of- NEWTON,

P. H. PRETYMAN.

